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2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Constructing mental representation model to improve subjective food related quality of life

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 23700921
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research InstitutionChuo University (2013-2014)
Jichi Medical University (2011-2012)

Principal Investigator

YASUSHI Kyutoku  中央大学, 研究開発機構, 准教授 (70569706)

Project Period (FY) 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
Keywords食情報 / 味覚 / 記憶 / 主観的食生活の質 / 主観的生活の質 / 外食産業
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The subjective quality of life regarding food (Food QoL) is not met in developed countries. In the current project, the combination of psychometric measurements and multivariate analyses were devised to gain insights to improve Food QoL among Japanese.
The first phase of the current project started in 2011 when psychometric properties of the questionnaires were examined. Using the questionnaires in conjunction with multivariate analyses made it possible to probe the discrepancy between desirable meals and actual consumed ones. Then, the association among the desirable and actual meal properties, and Food QoL were quantitatively modeled. Further, the devised methods were applied to model QoL including food life after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, to model consumers’ loyalty to a restaurant menu, to model conceptualization of cooking, to evaluate the appearance of a restaurant before and after renovation, and to model consumers’evaluation of hot spring locations.

Free Research Field

食生活学

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Published: 2016-06-03  

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